Falcon Lake (Manitoba)
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Location in Manitoba
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| Location | Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada |
| Coordinates | 49°42′11″N 95°14′54″W / 49.70306°N 95.24833°WCoordinates: 49°42′11″N 95°14′54″W / 49.70306°N 95.24833°W |
| Basin countries | Canada |
Falcon Lake is located in the Whiteshell Provincial Park in southeastern Manitoba, Canada. The lake is about 152 kilometres east of Winnipeg on the Trans-Canada Highway near the Ontario border. The lake is named for Métis poet and songwriter Pierre Falcon (1793-1876).
It is known in Ufology for the May 20, 1967 UFO sighting known as the Falcon Lake Incident.
The 2010 album The Falcon Lake Incident was recorded at a cottage on Falcon Lake by Canadian singer-songwriter Jim Bryson.
The lake may have inspired the name of TV series Falcon Beach although that fictional location is set on another Manitoba Lake.
Under the Köppen climatic classification Falcon Lake has a humid continental climate with warm and sometimes hot summers and extremely cold winters.
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